ct.gov

🤖 AI Summary

After conducting a thorough safety and legitimacy analysis, ct.gov receives a trust score of 75/100, which places it in the "Likely Safe" category. This score is calculated by evaluating multiple factors including SSL certificate validity, domain registration history, email authentication protocols, security header configuration, and blacklist status across major threat intelligence databases. The analysis identified several positive trust signals: a valid HTTPS connection protecting data in transit, HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) enforcement preventing protocol downgrade attacks, SPF (Sender Policy Framework) email authentication preventing email spoofing, DMARC email authentication with a quarantine policy, and DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) providing cryptographic email verification. Areas of concern include: the absence of a Content-Security-Policy header, which leaves the site more vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, the domain's WHOIS information is hidden behind a privacy service, making it harder to verify the owner's identity, and DNSSEC is not enabled, leaving DNS queries vulnerable to spoofing attacks. While these issues don't necessarily indicate malicious intent, they represent areas where the website's security posture could be improved. We checked ct.gov against 8 major blacklist databases including Google Safe Browsing, Phishtank, Urlhaus, Openphish, Dnsfilter, Spamhaus Dbl, Surbl, and Virustotal. The domain passed all 8 checks with a clean status, meaning it has not been flagged for phishing, malware distribution, spam, or other malicious activities by any of the tested threat intelligence providers.

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Our technology detection engine scanned ct.gov and identified 5 distinct technologies across 4 categories. This analysis is performed by examining HTTP response headers, HTML source code patterns, JavaScript library fingerprints, CSS framework signatures, and DNS records. Analytics: Google Analytics 4 and Hotjar — tracks visitor behavior and provides traffic insights for ct.gov. Tag Manager: Google Tag Manager — manages marketing and analytics tags without code changes for ct.gov. Fonts: Adobe Fonts — delivers web fonts for typography for ct.gov. JavaScript Library: jQuery — provides utility functions and DOM manipulation for ct.gov. We also extracted the following tracking identifiers: Google Tag Manager container GTM-KHNQGWP and Hotjar Site ID 218205. These IDs can be used to identify other websites operated by the same organization.

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ct.gov delivers its homepage in 10782ms (server response time), which is considered slow by industry standards. The total page weight is 40 KB, and we detected 101 resource requests loading assets from 16 third-party domains. A high number of third-party domains can significantly impact page load time due to additional DNS lookups and TLS handshakes required for each domain. The website uses Gzip compression for text-based assets, achieving an estimated 60.0% reduction in transfer size. This reduces bandwidth usage and improves page load times, especially for visitors on slower connections. Asset minification status: 0 out of 4 CSS files and 0 out of 9 JavaScript files are minified. Minifying the remaining 13 unminified file(s) could further reduce page weight by 10-30% for those assets. Minification is a best practice that reduces download sizes without affecting functionality. From an environmental perspective, each page view of ct.gov produces approximately 0.02g of CO₂, earning a carbon rating of A. This places the website among the cleanest on the web, demonstrating efficient use of server resources and optimized content delivery. For reference, the average web page produces about 0.5g of CO₂ per page view. The page weight of 40 KB is the primary factor in this calculation. Core Web Vitals data from the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) is not available for ct.gov. This typically means the site doesn't have enough real-world Chrome user traffic to generate statistically significant field data, or the domain is not included in the CrUX dataset. Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) are important Google ranking factors that measure real user experience.

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ct.gov resolves to the IPv4 address 159.247.0.240, but does not support IPv6. IPv6 adoption is increasingly important as IPv4 address space becomes exhausted, and some ISPs and regions are transitioning to IPv6-only connectivity. The domain has 1 A record(s) configured. The domain name system is managed by 2 name servers: ns1.cen.ct.gov and ns2.cen.ct.gov. Having 2 name servers provides good redundancy — if one fails, the others can continue serving DNS queries. The choice of name servers often indicates the DNS hosting provider or CDN service being used. Email for ct.gov is handled by pphosted.com with 2 MX records configured: mxa-005c2f01.gslb.pphosted.com and mxb-005c2f01.gslb.pphosted.com. Multiple MX records provide failover redundancy — if the primary mail server is unavailable, email will be routed to the next available server. SPF (Sender Policy Framework) is configured, which specifies which mail servers are authorized to send email on behalf of this domain. This helps prevent email spoofing and improves email deliverability. DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance) is configured with a quarantine policy — a moderate setting, directing unauthorized emails to spam/junk folders. DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) is configured, adding a cryptographic signature to outgoing emails that receiving servers can verify to confirm the email hasn't been tampered with in transit. DNSSEC is not enabled for ct.gov. While not critical for most websites, DNSSEC adds an important security layer by ensuring DNS responses haven't been tampered with during transit. Enabling DNSSEC is recommended for domains handling sensitive data or financial transactions. Our subdomain enumeration scan discovered 4 active subdomains for ct.gov: ftp.ct.gov, mail.ct.gov, portal.ct.gov, and www.ct.gov. Active subdomains can reveal the organization's infrastructure, including development environments, API endpoints, and third-party service integrations.

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The homepage of ct.gov contains 424 words of visible text content. This is a moderate amount of content. The page is structured with 2 H2 headings, 0 H3 headings, 1 H4 headings, 2 H5, and 0 H6 headings. The page includes 12 images. 4 images (33%) are missing alt text attributes, which is a significant concern for both accessibility and SEO. Screen readers rely on alt text to describe images to visually impaired users, and search engines use alt text to understand image content. Only 67% of images have proper alt text — we recommend adding descriptive alt attributes to all images. The link structure consists of 40 internal links pointing to other pages on the same domain and 13 external links pointing to third-party websites. There are 9 external JavaScript files, 4 CSS stylesheets, and 1 iframes on the page. Notable missing features: XML Sitemap, robots.txt, and Schema.org structured data. Adding these could improve search engine discoverability and rich result eligibility.

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The title tag for ct.gov is well-optimized at 43 characters: "CT.GOV-Connecticut's Official State Website". The length falls within the ideal range for Google search results, ensuring the full title is displayed without truncation. No meta description is configured for ct.gov. This is a critical SEO oversight — without a meta description, Google will auto-generate a snippet from page content, which may not accurately represent the page or entice users to click. Adding a unique, compelling meta description of 120-155 characters is strongly recommended. The page language is declared as en and the meta robots directive is set to index, follow. Open Graph meta tags are configured with 3/4 recommended fields: OG title ("CT.GOV-Connecticut's Official State Website..."), OG image (social sharing thumbnail), OG type (article). These tags control how the page appears when shared on Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media platforms that support the Open Graph protocol. A Twitter Card of type summary is configured, which controls how links appear when shared on Twitter/X. The "summary" type displays a large image preview, which typically generates higher engagement rates than the basic card type.

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Related domain discovery works by finding other websites that share the same IP address, Google Tag Manager container ID, Google Analytics property, or advertising pixel IDs with ct.gov. This data becomes available after batch-crawling the domain database — individual domain lookups cannot populate this section. We extracted the following tracking IDs that can be used for cross-referencing: gtm_id: GTM-KHNQGWP, hotjar_id: 218205.